When Grief Leads to Fear

“I’m terrified. I’m afraid of everything now,” Eddy said, her head in her hands.

Eddy’s adult daughter Cassie had been killed in a high-speed, five-car accident, along with her husband and her two small children. She was 30.

“A whole family gone, just like that,” she said, snapping her fingers.

“How do I live in a world where things like this can happen? I can barely get in a car anymore, let alone drive. I want to grab the rest of my family and lock us all in this house! I’m scared stiff. What’s going to happen next? I can’t afford to lose anyone else,” Eddy shared.

Fear can be powerful

When loss hits our lives, our world is shattered. Fear is a common and natural result.

After all, if this can happen, what else might?

The death of a loved one surfaces fears we didn’t know we had. Suddenly we’re staring at our own mortality – along with the mortality of everyone else we love and care about.